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BY ANNE KROOK | June 01 2015

How do we turn the doctoral student’s significant skills into a career outside academia?

I offer a four-hour session at U.S. and Canadian universities in which I teach humanities PhD students how to look for non-academic jobs. Students choosing to attend it typically come from one of two cohorts: second- and third-year students, or students in their fifth year and later. The difference ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/mobilizing-the-humanities-for-diverse-careers/
Graduate Matters
BY KULPREET CHEEMA | October 16 2023

By building a strong LinkedIn profile and reaching out to your network to do some information interviews, you are setting yourself on a path for success.

While academia has long been considered the traditional career path by master's and PhD students, today's job landscape offers many opportunities beyond the ivory tower. When I was a graduate student, my knowledge of potential careers after graduation was limited. By using LinkedIn, I learned to https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/graduate-matters/beyond-the-books-a-practical-guide-to-linkedin-networking-and-exploring-diverse-careers/
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BY WENDY GLAUSER | March 04 2020

Universities across the country are tweaking their admissions processes to attract students from less-privileged backgrounds.

diversity. While medical schools have taken steps to improve racial and gender diversity, and to attract more students from Indigenous backgrounds, socioeconomic status is one aspect that medical schools “haven’t perhaps been putting specific focus on up until recently,” says Geneviève Moi...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/why-medical-faculties-are-broadening-admissions-criteria/
The Skills Agenda
BY LOLEEN BERDAHL | July 27 2021

How to select course learning materials, including reading lists, that meet your learning outcomes needs while paying attention to student workloads and diversity.

diversity and inclusivity of your reading list and course materials There is growing attention to issues of representation, diversity and inclusion in assigned reading lists – and for good reason. As Schucan Bird and Lesl...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/the-skills-agenda/syllabus-design-boot-camp-day-2-course-learning-materials/
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BY HARRIET EISENKRAFT | October 12 2010

Universities are considered to be among the most liberal institutions in society, yet many non-Caucasian scholars say they still feel excluded or denied opportunities. How does this happen?

diversity and document those efforts. Universities have responded with reams of reports, commissions, committees, policies and plans. Not only do most have equity or human rights departments and offices, but the majority also state they want a more inclusive academy. Some institutions are making ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/racism-in-the-academy/
News
BY DIANE PETERS | May 26 2022

As the number of job ads aimed at under-represented groups grows, it’s garnering attention and generating controversy both in Canada and south of the border.

diversity targets laid out by the Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat, which is the government body responsible for administering the CRC program. Amid these small-scale controversies, the secretariat’s directives may be transforming diversity mandates at Canadian universities. “What w...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-are-ramping-up-targeted-hiring-to-meet-crc-equity-goals/
Features
BY JACKIE WONG | November 08 2017

Scholars push for a deeper look at how race and racism play out on university campuses.

diversity. They hold an idealized, idealistic place in the public imagination, and are thought of as places that incubate new ideas and serve as supportive hubs for academic innovation. But the walls of any university campus are more permeable than they first appear. For better, and for worse, th...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/equitable-campuses-but-for-whom/
In my opinion
BY MARK MERCER | January 10 2014

Diversity at university is insignificant when compared to the differences between university culture and civilian culture: a response to “Women’s rights or religious rights: which comes first?”

diversity pernicious is that acting on it can easily deform the institutional structures, policies, and procedures that support university culture. The more that deans and academic senates take the diversity idea seriously, the less hospitable their institutions will be to intellectual community. Th...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/saving-the-integrity-of-the-university/
In my opinion
BY MARK MERCER | April 20 2015
diversity, equity, or inclusiveness. So why not, when making academic decisions, try to increase diversity in the classroom and in the curriculum or try to bring more women and more people of colour into the professoriate?  Because when we turn away from academic criteria, we’re less likely to...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/on-what-grounds-should-academic-decisions-be-made/
In my opinion
BY JEROME CRANSTON | August 16 2023

Analysis of the appointments of provosts underscores the need to disrupt and dismantle current promotion processes.

diversity-inclusion/">Action Plan on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, and Continue reading. Through this, Universities Canada on behalf of its me...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-traditional-c-suite-appointments-continue-to-maintain-the-whiteness-of-the-academy/
Features
BY MOIRA MACDONALD | September 25 2019

They affirm that universities have a vital role to play in helping society navigate through the deepest challenges of our time, from climate change to the dangers of misinformation and rising intolerance.

diversity. This transformation highlights complexities and challenges which are only going to intensify. It also presents opportunities that reach beyond the slogan, “diversity is our strength.” Rather than treating Canada’s burgeoning super-diversity as a problem to be managed, universities s...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/7-university-leaders-contemplate-the-future-of-higher-education-in-canada/
Features
BY JULIE CAFLEY | October 27 2021

An expert on leadership in higher education explores the reasons women are less likely to be appointed president, and why so many have unfinished mandates.

diversity gaps at Canadian universities highlights four key factors when it comes to the top role: job design and advertising; the role of external consultants; the diversity of selection committees; and the role and composition of the board, particularly the chair. She says diversity is a key facto...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-struggle-for-gender-equity-in-university-leadership/
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BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS VENNE | August 30 2023

Are equity, diversity and inclusion criteria and sustainable development goals compatible with academia’s obsession with excellence?

diversity and inclusion (EDI) and sustainable development goals (SDGs) should be used as criteria in public research funding. The term “excellence” is bandied about in higher education as a qualifier for institutions, research teams, scientific papers, faculty and students. Yet there is no cl...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/the-excellence-dilemma/
News
BY ANQI SHEN | November 14 2017

The Gender Summit North America 2017 brought academic and corporate leaders together in Montreal to discuss how to foster diversity in organizations and at universities.

diversity in organizations. Hosted by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec, the three-day event held in Montreal in early November placed an additional focus on gender parity in the STEM fields. In engineering, for example, where women represent...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/no-quick-fix-gender-equity-problem-campuses/
In my opinion
BY VIANNE TIMMONS | November 17 2017

Taking steps to ensure that conscious and unconscious bias do not play a role in hiring and promotion does not mean that excellence cannot exist.

diversity and excellence cannot exist together at Canadian universities. I strongly disagree. Diversity and excellence are not at odds in our universities. Nor are they at odds in Continue reading on equity, diversity and inclusion to which Universities Canada has comm...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/equal-opportunities-bring-excellent-outcomes-response-margaret-wente/
In my opinion
BY BENJAMIN MAIANGWA, ANTONY PUDDEPHATT & OLUWATOMI AKINYEDE | September 12 2023

The main problem is the government’s failure to subsidize international students.

diversity, and inclusion (EDI) policies to adequately accommodate international students on Canadian campuses. Ms. Sanchez-Coen’s interview-based research explored the various barriers experienced by international students upon joining Canadian universities. The students she interviewed reported f...
https://universityaffairs.ca/opinion/in-my-opinion/how-our-treatment-of-international-students-fails-edi-goals-in-canada/
The Happy Academic
BY BAILEY SOUSA & ALEXANDER CLARK | August 29 2022

To thrive in conflict situations: embrace learning and diversity, and grow trust.

diversity creates conflict What’s curious about conflict in academia is not only that it is inevitable, but it’s also a precious reflection of the diversity we value. Given academics’ different schooling, academic journeys, disciplines, genders, philosophies and political beliefs alone, ...
https://universityaffairs.ca/career-advice/effective-successfull-happy-academic/how-academics-can-handle-conflict-better/
The Many Faces
BY SARA BAPTISTE-BROWN | February 06 2024

Beyond proclamations and before processes, people are core.

diversity, inclusion, and accessibility to a website, to a mission statement, to a discussion. It is more difficult to articulate what these words mean to each of us as individuals. And furthermore, what each concept means as individuals making up a collective, a unit, or an organization. As I to...
https://universityaffairs.ca/the-many-faces/how-to-incorporate-decolonization-and-edi-when-working-with-students-and-employer-partners/
Features
BY PEGGY BERKOWITZ | August 04 2009

Academic Michèle Lamont shares her insights on the peer review process after she had rare access to the behind-the-scenes deliberations of several multi-disciplinary review panels

diversity as a criteria, which dimensions of diversity were they paying attention to? “Overall I found that institutional diversity and also disciplinary diversity are much more important to them than racial or gender diversity. I think something like 15 percent of them emphasize gender and eth...
https://universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/peering-behind-the-curtain-of-peer-review/
News
BY NATALIE SAMSON | September 05 2017

Institutions are required to submit action plans by year’s end and are expected to meet their diversity targets by December 2019.

diversity and inclusion action plan in May. It is the program’s biggest move yet in its push for better representation of four designated groups – women, Indigenous people, visible minorities and people with disabilities – at the highest levels of Canadian research. “There are many ex...
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/news-article/universities-prepare-new-equity-guidelines-canada-research-chairs/
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